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If you can follow the threads of a mystery story and sometimes even figure out whodunit, you can find work in this economy. You can uncover new business opportunities and/or find the best places to look for a new job. You can tell when it’s time to leave a job too. Economics can help you do this.
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Murder at the Margin by Marshall Jevons (Princeton University Press, 1978)

Can economics and English ever mix? I switched from English to Economics in graduate school for a purely economic reason. The tenured professors in the English Department were so incensed with their graduate students going on strike for higher wages that the profs abolished the only source of financial aid in the department…awards for teaching freshmen English.

At a mixer for new grad students in Economics at UW, I was teased by an upperclassman, “Oh, you mean English majors can add?” In one of my many classes where I was the only woman, my professor whipped out a poem by an author I’d never even heard of, and looking straight at me, read it aloud. He concluded with a smile and the statement, “Even we economists can appreciate great literature.”

So it was with some delight and skepticism I picked up a copy of Marshall Jevons’ book, “Murder at the Margin,” the first known mystery by an economist. Both feelings were richly rewarded.
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Sales of U.S. Assets

At the end of the post Our Government: A Business Without Assets? I asked, “What next? Will we soon see ads for giant auctions on the lawn of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?”
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